They kept the wax worms temporarily in a common plastic shopping bag that became poked with holes.īertocchini has collaborated with her other colleagues, Paolo Bombelli and Christopher Howe to conduct a timed experiment. This discovery happened when Federica Bertocchini from the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (CSIC) Spain was removing the parasitic pests from the honeycombs in their hives. Its beehives can usually be found across Europe. Wax moths lay their eggs inside hives where the wax worms hatch and grow on beeswax and that is where their name was originated. The male ones have a particular concave outer edge to the forewing while the female, on the other hand, has usually plainer in appearance with a less concave edge.Īccording to UKmoths, the name 'Wax Moth' refers to the moth's lifestyle. In this type of species, it has a male and a female type. In the wild, the wax worms live as parasites in bee colonies. Galleria mellonella also known as wax worms is founded by Linnaeus in the year 1758. An example of this is in the form of plastic shopping bags. Polyethylene is one of the strongest and most used plastics mostly found blocking up the landfill sites. In recent studies, scientists have found that wax worms that are commercially bred for fishing bait have the capability to biodegrade polyethylene.
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